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After being in competition with many, many other films, In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School ​was nominated in the category of Best Documentary 2018 at the Female Eye Film Festival.

Research Question: ​Is the Canadian government - by suppressing evidence of horrific abuses that occurred against First Nations children while interned at St. Anne's Residential School - making a conscious and concerted effort to ensure that 'cultural genocide' does not become part of Canada's national historical record? In other words, is the government attempting to erase cultural genocide from Canada's historical legacy?

﻿When researching residential schools in the Fall of 2014, I ran across newspaper articles and online media coverage with the former Chief of Fort Albany, Edmund Metatawabin, speaking about the horrific abuses that occurred at St. Anne's residential school: rape and other forms of sexual assault, children being forced to eat vomit, children being electrocuted in a homemade electric chair, beatings with a metal-studded cat of nine-tails, public humiliations, deaths and disappearances of children, and the attempted erasure of cultural identity by the Catholic Oblates of Mary Immaculate. While priests and nuns viciously assaulted the children at St. Anne's, the Canadian government turned a blind eye. In many ways, they still do.

​I understood that these abuses brought the racism and brutality of both the Canadian federal government and the Catholic diocese to a whole new level. I then contacted Edmund, who is now a co-producer on the documentary film I am directing and producing, Erasing Cultural Genocide: a film that looks at the abuses of the past as well as the abuses being suffered by those going through the Independent Assessment Process (IAP).

Why are Survivor stories so important?

Survivor stories need to be told in order to correct an acutely incorrect indigenous history in Canada. Survivor stories need to be told so that our government can no longer lie about genocide having occurred in Canada. Only with truths told can justice be achievable. There is great power in testimony.​

Addressing current-day obstructions of justice

​Currently, lawyers Fay Brunning and Stuart Wuttke (AFN) and Survivors of St. Anne's are in the courts to ensure that the Canadian government stops obstructing justice in the Independent Assessment Process (IAP).

Healing now to help future generations

As the Survivors of St. Anne's know, children learn by example. There are many efforts today, both collectively and individually, to ensure that healing of the Survivors and intergenerational Survivors is highest priority. Returning to traditional ways is often the foundation for recovery and healing.